Market Giants vs. Dwarfs: New Zealand’s Perspective on Environmental Reporting

Nlte Modelatmospheres Form Dwarfs and Giants

New Global Environmental Reporting Prize

-A curvilinear dose response of myeloid leukaemia induction in the CBA male mouse was obtained after single whole-body X-irradiation at about 3 months of age. This strain has a very low spontaneous incidence of the disease and no cases were found in the unirradiated controls. The incidence was independent of dose rate over the range used (4.2-552 rad/min). Diagnosis required histopathological e...

A heaven without giants or dwarfs--equality, gender and disabilities.

A few years ago Claudio Tamburrini and Torbjörn Tännsjö (not coincidentally, two men), published a paper in which they discussed gender equality in sports. Tamburini and Tännsjö complained that sport arenas are one of the few residual places where discrimination against women is openly accepted. They argued that the very existence of male sports and female sports, as two separate events, is an ...

NLTE effects of Ti I in M dwarfs and giants

We present detailed NLTE Ti I calculations in model atmospheres of cool dwarf and giant stars. A fully self-consistent NLTE treatment for a Ti I model atom with 395 levels and 5279 primary bound-bound transitions is included, and we discuss the implication of departures from LTE in this atom for the strengths of Ti I lines and TiO molecular bands in cool star spectra. We show that in the atmosp...

Dwarfs and Giants: Cannibalism and Competition in Size-Structured Populations.

Cannibals and their victims often share common resources and thus potentially compete. Smaller individuals are often competitively superior to larger ones because of size-dependent scaling of foraging and metabolic rates, while larger ones may use cannibalism to counter this competition. We study the interplay between cannibalism and competition using a size-structured population model in which...